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This method works because both languages corpuses talk about the same things. Life, death, love, war... they happen to people speaking all languages.

To translate whale song, you need data that corresponds to what the whales are singing about.

The difference between current demand, and the increased demand that would exist at a lower price.

I just mean, there are lots of people that would move to SF if they could afford it. This mass of potential immigrants will counter an attempt to just build your way out.

Unless you mean a real substantive change to the city e.g. building 30,000 apartments/year.

These all seem a guaranteed flop at the consumer level.

Limited FOV is going to kill it for almost everyone. I think they would sell more at double the price, if they doubled the FOV.

The solution to the housing problem is to build more houses.

There's way too much latent demand for housing in booming cities to just build your way out. Without rent control, there will be people not benefiting from the boom that are just bled dry by rising costs.

Perhaps most importantly, Napoleon was at the helm of the first citizen-army with a modern sense of nationalism.

It was the only military in Europe that appointed and promoted officers based on merit.

Of course, the liberal revolution in France took the same step.

They had trials, but it really just came down to, 'The king is guilty of having been king.' The royal family is an existential threat to the new government.